. >> said basically to bp, you are not going to get any more if he had cal contracts. you have proven to us you can separate safely? correct? >> that's right. bp is the large event fuel supplier for the department defense. last calendar year they had contracts worth $135,000,000,000, mainly to the air force, which uses a lot of jet fuel. >> yeah. >> and bp was far and away the largest fuel supplier to the department of defense. they also are the largest offshore -- holder of offshore leases. they have over 700 leases. they have seven active wells in the gulf of mexico so when the epa made this announcement, the department of interior, the federal agency that overseas gulf of mexico leasing echoed that access to leases would also be off limits until this matter is resolved. now, here is where -- >> bill: can they survive this as a company? >> i think it will be very difficult but the problem here is that bp immediately issued a statement after the epa made its announcement and bp said we are in mature talks with the epa. we have submitted a 100-page document outlining h